Gnarly slides and thorny things, help identify

[MrHF]

thanks in advance, cheers

 

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[IMAUDIGGER]

Iron oxides?

 

[DizzyDigger]

Can't say what it is, but the question on my mind is...have you
crushed and panned any of it yet?

 

[MrHF]

I have crushed some and alot of mica

 

[MrHF]

I thought maybe laterite in place with wind weathering, the inside light color was cavernous with a decent pocket that ran18-24" i thought at first we might get an aluminum gem of some sort because there's lots of weathered mica coming from these contacts/pockets? But i haven't scratched any further..

 

[MrHF]

 

[MrHF]

Above this location is a large hydrothermal vein thats extrusive, theres alot of metamorphic rock down lower, i also noticed a rose granite extrusion off the other side of the ridge with similar oxidation contacts a few feet out from dyke but lacking the mica

 

[MrHF]

this is what was underneath the first pictures at the top. Theres several quartz stringers

 

[MrHF]

pulling some more of the stained material out i see some more of that black running in the host gneiss?